blog # 6

 

In our world today, students are going to school starting in kindergarten and making their way up. All the while forming some sort of plan about what they want to be when they grow up. At first you want to be a doctor so you take medical and health classes and about half way through your sophomore year you decide that you can’t do it or that it’s too hard. So you change your plan and decide to be an accountant. That sounds great until you realize how much math you have to do and how much money it will cost you to go to that big university. Again, you change your mind and this continues to happen until you finally realize that everything you want to do is either too hard, too expensive or takes too long. After all that time you wasted in school learning things that aren’t going to help you at all you start to look into a college. You decide on a community college and work toward a degree. College isn’t cheap you have to take out loans and apply for grants and scholarships. This brings us into the ever growing topic of student loans and cost of education. Students take out loans to pay for college and then work to pay them off. Or at least some do. The United States is trillions of dollars in debt mainly by college loans that never get paid back. The cost of education is sky high but unless you want to be on the bottom of the tier for the rest of your life, education is necessary. However given the lack of educated people we have today, unemployment has grown tremendously over the past few years. The average pay for somebody with only a high school diploma is $650 a week with a 8.3% unemployment rate. Those with a bachelors degree make an average of $1056 a week with a 4% unemployment rate. People tend to rely on those major companies such as, Sears or Macys for employment opportunities because they think they will be around forever, they won’t be. There is a handful of jobs out there that will never go away such as: Teachers, Doctors, Welders, Farmers and a whole bunch of others. Take Welding for example, Welders get paid very well and will always be needed. The fact of the matter is, that welding is one of those jobs that people tend to overlook because it just isn’t their thing or they think that you have to be skilled in that area. However, Welding is not a hard job to learn, most welders are off to work after nine months of schooling. That’s it. But no one looks at that as a possibility. The point here is that you should learn a useful skill and turn it into a career. Get your education and make something of yourself, and don’t ever let anybody tell you what they think you should be doing. The career path you choose to take or and the education you have to get you down that path is your choice.

 

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